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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Early in your career (and, unfortunately, late in the career of some leaders), it’s natural to focus on your functional agenda to the point where you ignore the bigger picture and the agenda of others. You can think of it as a self-assessment for how you’re doing on shifting from a “me” mindset to an “us” mindset.

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MARCH 11, 2020

As a professor at Columbia University, a counterterrorism research fellow for the Department of Homeland Security and a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, Jennifer has spent her career helping people get out of seemingly endless conflict loops.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There was a period in my blogging career when I created a side gig as a vocal critic of former Washington NFL football team owner, Dan Snyder. It started in 2009 with a post I wrote about how leaders could succeed just by not doing what he did. That one led to an appearance on the local TV news in D.C.

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JUNE 26, 2014

He’s approaching the end of a 20 year career and just got married a few months ago to a wonderful woman. A good friend of mine, who I’ll refer to here as Rick, is a Lt. Colonel in the U.S.

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JUNE 1, 2012

This week, I’m highlighting tweets and links on productivity, women leaders, and getting your career back on track, among others. Every week, I share a recap of some of the best things I’ve seen on Twitter. Click headline to continue.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Krames has been involved in publishing more than 400 business books over the course of his career and has written books on business and government leaders like Jack Welch and Donald Rumsfeld. As Krames describes himself, he is the son of Holocaust survivors and believes that Pope Francis is the most authentic leader he has ever seen.

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JUNE 28, 2022

I hope they encourage you to think about your own strengths and not blow past them: Deploy Them Elsewhere : Early in my coaching career, I coached a senior executive who was his company’s primary representative to a key customer. Based on my coaching experience, here are three ways to leverage your strengths to be a more effective leader.

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MAY 29, 2013

As the author of Getting Ahead: Three Ways to Take Your Career to the Next Level, Joel has done a ton of research, coaching and speaking on the topic so he was a great guy to talk with about influence. Click headline to continue. Leadership Lessons Personal Presence audio Getting Ahead Influence Joel Garfinkle leadership'

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JANUARY 15, 2014

Russell had made her career by casting her in Silver Linings Playbook (a 2013 Golden Globe and Academy Award for Lawrence) and, now, American Hustle (a 2014 Golden Globe for Lawrence - so far.). Russell and that he had directed three of her other favorite movies. Click headline to continue.

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Of course, that’s another 30-year career away for me and won’t just happen through dumb good luck. Topping all of them is 103-year-old holistic health expert, Gladys McGarey, who as the Wall Street Journal reports keeps a full schedule and has appeared on over 200 podcast episodes in the past few years. That’s how I want to be.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Colonel Dwyer is enjoying a second career in the private sector after. Last week, I had the opportunity to join a small group of leadership coaches for dinner with retired US Army Colonel Steve Dwyer. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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JANUARY 29, 2016

Last week, I shared some of my thoughts on Bowie’s innovative career and life on the Huffington Post. Like many, I was moved earlier this month by the news of David Bowie’s death and what he accomplished in his life. Thought you’d like to read them here in case you missed them there.

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MAY 17, 2012

She’s a company veteran and change leader who has taken on increasingly responsible positions over the course of her career. Sondra Barbour is the chief information officer and senior vice president of enterprise business services at Lockheed Martin. I spoke with her recently about what she’s learned along the way.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

They then spent the day in conversation with President Obama’s former aide and “body man”, Reggie Love ; learning how to build their personal brands, getting career development advice from a panel of black executives, and coaching each other on setting actionable goals.

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MAY 21, 2015

If you’re a leader in your organization, there will be multiple times in your career when you have to get a new team off to a strong start. One of the critical steps in that process is when you bring the team members together for the first time.

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APRIL 26, 2022

Back in the early days of my public speaking career, I got some invaluable feedback that eventually changed everything for me. My book, The Next Level , had been out for about a year and I was asked to be a regular speaker at a companywide leadership program for a major investment firm.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

I got into it because I was looking for a way to stay in shape when my knees and other health challenges more or less brought an end to my thirty five year career as a runner. It was three years ago last week that I started practicing yoga. I thought I was in pretty good shape but my first yoga class seemed like it would never end.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Most people that are talented enough to reach next level scenarios in their careers are pretty good at picking things up. As I''ve been out talking about and coaching around the book for almost 10 years, I''ve recognized that I stumbled on to something deeper than I realized when I was writing The Next Level back in 2005.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Those are the kinds of questions that have intrigued Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dart­mouth, for much of his professional career. They’ve intrigued him so much, in fact, that he spent ten years researching and conducting 200 interviews on the questions.

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JULY 20, 2015

As reported in the New York Times, earlier this year, Duval began leaving his playing career behind and signed up as an analyst for the Golf Channel. In the latest world rankings, he was 1,268. You don’t make the cut very often as a pro when you’re ranked 1,268.

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MAY 29, 2019

Pretty much every leader I’ve ever coached or spoken to has worked for a micromanager at least once in their career. If dealing with a micromanager for a boss isn’t the number one complaint I hear from high potential leaders, then it’s certainly in the top three.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

They may not do it exactly the same way you would do it, but at some point, earlier in your career, somebody took a bet on you and asked you to do some things that they used to do. Now that you’re in your leadership role, start giving away the things that you’re an expert in to your team.

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

He’s had a lot of successes in his career and is fond of speaking his mind. The subject is Dan Akerson, who’s been the CEO of General Motors for 15 months. Akerson is not a “car guy.” He made his bones in telecommunications and came to GM from the world of private equity investments. Click headline to continue.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

After 18 years of the sacks, injuries and surgeries that come with a career in the League, the soon to be 40 year old Manning managed the Broncos’ offense well enough to enable its defense to win the 50 th Super Bowl. It wasn’t a great game, but it was a win. There are Peyton Manning fans and Peyton Manning haters.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

He told me that earlier in his career when he was at Pepsi that the best way to get promoted to vice president there was to operate as if you were already a VP. What he meant by that was to emulate the behaviors of the most respected VPs in terms of things like collaboration, initiative, credibility, and accountability.

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JULY 13, 2021

They can stay more connected to their families while building their careers. They’re saving money on gas and child care. They have time for hobbies and other pursuits that make them more creative and happier people. They’ve found that working from home has nurtured their souls and improved the quality of their lives.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When I was getting started in my career as a speaker 15 years ago, I had a client organization where I spoke to 40 or 50 high potential leaders three or four times a year. This point was driven home to me years ago by a client. My natural energy setting is friendly but low key. I’m not usually going to be the loudest voice in the room.

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JULY 11, 2018

Research shows that moving to the executive level is among the toughest transitions of any career. This post is adapted from the forthcoming third edition of my book, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success. Available in October, you can pre-order it here.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

At that point in his career, he was best known for Jaws , E.T., For some reason, I decided to categorize my list into different fields like the arts, media, science, business and education. This was back in 1983 (yes, I’m that old) so I don’t remember most of my answers. My first was Steven Spielberg.

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MAY 16, 2016

Alive and exceedingly well at age 90, Stanley spent a big part of his career building out the Sheraton Hotel chain around the world. No, that was the late Studs Terkel. Unless you work in the hotel industry, you probably haven’t heard of Stanley Turkel.

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MARCH 28, 2016

I’ve known each of these people so long that we’ve shared births, deaths, career challenges, health crises, laughs, sadness, triumphs, defeats and, really, just a lot of life together. In each and every case, I reveled in the opportunity to connect on a deeper level than one does in most day to day interactions.

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JUNE 28, 2010

He became a consistent supporter of civil rights legislation only in the last half of his career.  At the peak of his career, that base of knowledge enabled him to be a leader of the institution and drive the agendas of his party, his president and himself.

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JUNE 21, 2010

In addition to the good times and the successes, she talked about tough times she had been through in her career and bad bosses she had worked for. She had a couple of  great pieces of advice for people that are going through a difficult stretch in their career. First, ask yourself, “What am I supposed to be learning from this?”

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JULY 21, 2010

Earlier in my career, I ended up as a manager in a couple of HR departments. You deal with a lot of employee discipline issues in HR and the first thing you learn is you have to do a thorough investigation before you make any decisions that could end or damage someones career or reputation. Why didn’t you mention their failure?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Chances are that, at some point in your career, you’re going to work for a human tornado. In my speeches and workshops, I often say that leaders control the weather.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Then, of course, we had the fascinating story of Jet Blue flight attendant Stephen Slater pulling the metaphorical rip cord on his 20 year career. One is that, until this week, Slater had an exemplary career with Jet Blue. I can’t stop reading about this story – there are so many layers to it.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

The career history of the talented, iconoclastic, maddening, entertaining (even if he’s the guy you love to hate) Olbermann has been one of resigning from or getting fired by every network he’s worked for.

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